Recent Acquisitions July 2007

Subject	Call No. and Title

Aquatic sports
	220299 Jennings, Gayle, ed. Water-Based Tourism, Sport, Leisure, and Recreation Experiences. New York: Elsevier, 2007. Water-Based Tourism, Sport, Leisure and Recreation Experiences is divided into four sections, focusing on sailing and boating, sport and extreme sport, adventure, and sustainability. The book discusses market profiles, advantages and disadvantages, impacts, and future directions for each of the various water-based experiences presented. International case studies and examples are also used to illustrate and highlight discussion points.

Birdsongs -- North America
	281479 Beletsky, Les. Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds including the rediscovered Ivory-billed Woodpecker in a stunning new format. Renowned bird biologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs.

Cartography -- History
	232371 Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. New York: A. A. Knopf, 2000. In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize—winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. Wilford brings the story up to the present day as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain.

Climatic changes
	030787 Linden, Eugene. The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context. Eugene Linden reveals a recurring pattern in which civilizations become prosperous and complacent during good weather, only to collapse when climate changes -- either through its direct effects, such as floods or drought, or indirect consequences, such as disease, blight, and civil disorder.

	030806 Pearce, Fred. With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. As Fred Pearce began working on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. With Speed and Violence tells the stories of these scientists and their work—from the implications of melting permafrost in Siberia and the huge river systems of meltwater beneath the icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica to the effects of the "ocean conveyor" and a rare molecule that runs virtually the entire cleanup system for the planet.

Codfish
	281480 Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. New York: Penguin Books, 1998. A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Here--for scientist and layperson alike, for philosopher, science-fiction reader, biologist, and computer expert--is a startlingly complete and rational synthesis of disciplines, and a new, optimistic message about existence.

Drinking water -- Contamination -- United States
	172919 Ingram, Colin. The Drinking Water Book: How to Eliminate Harmful Toxins from Your Water. 2nd ed. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 2006. The Drinking Water Book takes a level-headed look at the serious issues surrounding America’s drinking water supply. Unlike water purifier manufacturers and public health officials, Colin Ingram presents unbiased reporting on what’s in your water and how to drink safely.

Explorers -- United States -- Biography
	271376 Powell, John Wesley. Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001. Seeing Things Whole presents Powell in the full diversity of his achievements and interests, bringing together in a single volume writings ranging from his gripping account of exploring the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to his views on the evolution of civilization, along with the seminal writings in which he sets forth his ideas on western settlement and the allocation and management of western resources.

Geysers
	051529 Bryan, T. Scott. Geysers: What They Are and How They Work. 2nd ed. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing, 2005. With clear, succinct prose, Scott Bryan explains the geological setting that produces the pressure, heat, and abundant water necessary for a geyser to form and introduces us to the variables that shape each geyser’s distinct personality.

Global warming
	030786 Reay, Dave. Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming. New York: Macmillan, 2005. This book quantifies how and why every one of us can and must halt climate change by taking action at home, in the garden, on the way to work, in the office, on holiday, at the supermarket, the bank, and even the funeral parlor. Climate Change Begins at Home is an entertaining exploration of how and why we can and must halt climate change - one of greatest threats humankind faces in 21st century.

	030788 Gore, Albert. An Inconvenient Truth. Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale Press, 2006. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly-and has become a true planetary emergency. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. Inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are responded to, their significance doesn’t diminish; it grows.

	030791 Lovelock, James. The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity. New York: Basic Books, 2006. The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living superorganism, regulating its internal environment much as an animal regulates its body temperature. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test.

Historic sites -- Lake Superior -- Guidebooks
	220300 Bogue, Margaret Beattie. Around the Shores of Lake Superior: A Guide to Historic Sites. 2nd ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. Around the Shores of Lake Superior is an ideal trip planner and a unique guide to the region. As author Margaret Beattie Bogue follows the Lake Superior shoreline clockwise through Minnesota, Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin, she evokes the richness of local history and highlights hundreds of landmarks and points of interest that surround the lake.

Hurricane Katrina
	030802 Horne, Jed. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. New York: Random House, 2006. Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city’s collapse into chaos and its continuing struggle to survive.

	030803 Brinkley, Douglas. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: Morrow, 2006. In The Great Deluge, author Douglas Brinkley rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view. The book finds the true heroes -- such as Coast Guard officer Jimmy Duckworth and hurricane jock Tony Zumbado. Throughout the book, Brinkley lets the Katrina survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina.

Landscape gardening -- Water conservation
	290253 Dunnett, Nigel and Andy Clayden. Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainability in the Garden and Designed Landscape. Portland, Or.: Timber Press, 2007. Nigel Dunnett & Andy Clayden have created a comprehensive guide to water management techniques for the garden and built environment. Filled with practical, manageable solutions for small and large-scale implementations and utilizing authoritative research with state-of-the-art case studies from all over the world, Rain Gardens is the first book on sustainable water management schemes suitable for students and professionals.

Leatherback turtle
	281478 Safina, Carl. Voyage of the Turtle. New York: Holt, 2006. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world’s oceans and its creatures. As Carl Safina’s compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands.

Naturalists -- Wisconsin -- Biography
	271379 Newton, Julianne Lutz. Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006. A household icon of the environmental movement, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) may be the most quoted conservationist in history. But who is the man behind the words? How did he arrive at his profound and poetic insights, inspiring generations of environmentalists? Building on past scholarship and a fresh study of Leopold's unpublished archival materials, Julianne Lutz Newton retraces the intellectual journey that generated such passion and intelligence.

Salmon fishing -- Great Lakes
	281485 Filkins, Kenn. Fly Fishing for Salmon and Steelhead of the Great Lakes. Chelsea, Mich.: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1998. This comprehensive, entertaining guide casts light on opportunities and techniques for the fly fishermen lured to rivers in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario, New York, and Ohio. Fly Fishing for Salmon and Steelhead shares stories and comments from many experienced fly fishing guides. It is the first book to cover the non-traditional-but tremendously successful-Great Lakes fly fishing techniques. Each chapter contains charts, photographs, and anecdotes to clarify the methods described.

Shipwrecks -- Wisconsin -- Door County -- History -- Pictorial works
	191129 Van Harpen, John Paul. Door Peninsula Shipwrecks. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2006. From the first Euro American ship to sail the western Great Lakes, LaSalle’s fabled Griffin that left Washington Island in 1679 never to be heard of again, to modern-day pleasure crafts that find the shallow inlets and bays hard to navigate, Door County is the final resting place of many shipwrecks. Door Peninsula Shipwrecks takes the reader on a photographic journey around the peninsula and back to a time of wooden ships and iron men.

Tsunamis -- California -- Crescent City -- History -- 20th century
	030805 Powers, Dennis M. The Raging Sea: The Powerful Account of the Worst Tsunami in U.S. History. New York: Citadel, 2005. Weaving together historical research with survivor accounts, Dennis M. Powers recreates the events of the fateful night when thirty city blocks were ravaged, 289 homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed, and eleven people lost their lives to a tsunami on Good Friday, 1964.

Water in art
	271383 Halter, Ardyn. The Water’s Edge: Meetings of Image and Word. Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2006. This book presents water-related art by Ardyn Halter in tandem with poetry he thinks matches well with his work. Rather than seeking to illustrate the poems, Halter created his art first and then sought poems that complimented his pieces.

Water supply -- Fiction
	271382 Swartz, Mark. H2O: A Novel. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2006. It's 2020 and shortages and contamination have made drinking water scarce. Hayden Shivers is a lowly filter and drains engineer employed by Drixa, a mega-corporation with a monopoly on water. When he stumbles upon a method for synthesizing fake water, Hayden is promised a big promotion if he signs over his patent to Drixa. As the company hustles to get the product on the market, Hayden frantically tries to stop them until the new water is confirmed safe.

Other new books
	030799 Climate Change and Water Quality in the Great Lakes Basin: Report of the Great Lakes Water Quality Board to the International Joint Commission. Detroit: International Joint Commission, 2003.

	030813 Excessive Heat Events Guidebook. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2006.

	050645 2005 Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council. Report to the Legislature. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Water Resources Management, 2005.

	061404 Mickelson, David M. Landscapes of Dane County, Wisconsin. Madison: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 2007.

	152286 Illinois Wetland Restoration and Creation Guide. Champaign: Illinois Natural History Survey, 1997.

	181611 Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences. The Role of Science in Solving the Earth’s Emerging Water Problems. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 2004.

	210400 Hunt, R. J. Evaluating the Effects of Nearshore Development on Wisconsin Lakes. Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey, 2006.

SELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS - July 2007